The sequence of books begun with ‘En vej ud af tågen’ – an honest and poetic memoir about finding oneself – ends in ‘Afstanden’ (English: ‘The Distance’) which goes back to those formative memories but also describes a life with those we try to leave behind. The book deals with the perils of conformist masculine ideas, how remembering (or forgetting) shapes us and how love is constantly made and remade – to quote Ursula LeGuin. It’s a dramatic and tough but life-affirming end to the best-selling and critically acclaimed trilogy.
“Kristian Leth completes his memoir trilogy masterfully. The author puts everything on the page in the last volume in the trilogy about remembering, being a son, being a father, being a man, being.”
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“A small monument to manhood and youth, fatherhood and childishness, artistic soul and everyday body, warm melancholy and depressive ecstasy.”
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